LONDON — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have released the eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The research project enumerates the world’s leading institutions for the study of 48 different subjects and five subject groups. The portfolio - the most extensive of its kind - is designed to provide a crucial comparative guide to university performance for students both aspiring and current, parents, career & study advisors, and academia.

This year, Harvard University retains its global pre-eminence. It ranks number-one for fourteen different subjects, outranking Massachusetts Institute of Technology (12 number-one ranks) and the University of Oxford (four number-one ranks).

Key Findings:

The United States’ higher education system records more drops than rises;

The United Kingdom’s universities remain resilient in the face of Brexit, taking 10 number-one ranks - two more than last year;

The University of Cambridge takes more top-ten ranks than any other institution (37);

In continental Europe, The Netherlands is the only country to take two top places while Switzerland and Italy take one apiece;

French universities continue to flounder, with more regressions than progressions;

National University of Singapore is Asia’s standout institution, taking 11 top-10 places;

China’s rate of improvement has slowed, as has Russia’s;

India’s performance deteriorates slightly;

Brazil loses nearly a quarter of its top-100 places, underlining the system’s struggles;

QS have added two new tables to the portfolio this year: Library & Information Management and Classics & Ancient History.

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018Institutions achieving most Top-10 Ranks

Institution — Country — Number of Subjects in which placed in Top-10

University of Cambridge — UK — 37 Subjects

University of Oxford — UK — 35 Subjects

University of California, Berkeley — USA — 34 Subjects

Harvard University — USA — 34 Subjects

Stanford University — USA — 32 Subjects

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — USA — 24 Subjects

University of California, Los Angeles — USA — 14 Subjects

London School of Economics — UK — 13 Subjects

National University of Singapore — Singapore — 11 Subjects

Yale University — USA — 11 Subjects

Ben Sowter, Research Director, QS, said: “For perhaps the first year since we began this research project, we see the improvement of Asian nations decelerate somewhat. There is no noteworthy proportional increase in the number of top-50 positions they take, and only the National University of Singapore demonstrates comprehensive competitiveness in the very highest echelons. The results demonstrate the difficulties facing any institution or system aiming to reach world-class research performance standards.”

ACADEMIC REPUTATION

QS RANK — UNIVERSITY — ACADEMIC REPUTATION SCORE

Harvard University — 100

University of Cambridge — 100

University of California, Berkeley (UCB) — 100

University of Oxford — 100

Stanford University — 100

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — 100

The University of Tokyo — 100

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — 100

Princeton University — 100

Yale University — 100

National University of Singapore (NUS) — 100

Columbia University — 99.9

University of Chicago — 99.9

Peking University — 99.8

The University of Melbourne — 99.8

UCL (University College London) — 99.7

University of Toronto — 99.7

Kyoto University — 99.7

University of Michigan — 99.7

Cornell University — 99.6

ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology — 99.6

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — 99.5

Imperial College London — 99.4

The Australian National University — 99.3

The University of Sydney — 99.3

UNIVERSITIES FROM INDIA

QS RANK — UNIVERSITY — ACADEMIC REPUTATION SCORE

(172) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) — 54.9

(179) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) — 62.3

(190) Indian Institute of Science — 38.3

(264) Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) — 41.1

(293) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) — 38.8

(308) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) — 31.4

(481-490) University of Delhi — 41.6

(531-440) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) — No Score to Report

(501-550) Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) — No Score to Report